The Training Academy for Citizenship (AFC-USJ), affiliated with the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Law and Political Science at Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ), and established in partnership with the Tamari Foundation, ALAM-Suisse, and the Diane Foundation, offers Lebanon’s first university Diploma in Civic Engagement and Citizen Initiative. 

As a pioneering program, it responds to the pressing need for young people to help shape our future Lebanon. It seeks to engage USJ students in innovative civic activities that embrace Lebanon’s diversity and contribute to the transition from a political system based on sectarian and clientelist dynamics to a social contract founded on fundamental human rights.

Promoting the core values of merit, freedom of expression, and equality before public services and the justice system, this university diploma invites students to revisit traditional approaches to citizenship, examine emerging practices implemented in democratic societies, and reimagine the Lebanese social contract.

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